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How Should a Muslim Lady Dress ?

The non-Muslims encourage the exposure and exhibition of the female body regarding it as a great art. Public displays of female bodies in magazines like Vogue are considered artistic developments. Careers like modelling, acting, singing and dancing is short cuts for women to become famous and rich. They design clothes for fashion, which hints at the femininity of the woman and emphasises her figure. In other words, a non-Muslim woman should be dressed to kill at all times. Perfume and makeup should be her constant companions. She is dolled up to attract the attention of the people around her so that she can be noticed, admired and desired.

Islam on the other hand commands a woman to cover herself completely so that she does not attract any attention. The Quran states in Surah Ahzaab verse 59 "… O Nabi! Say to the believing women to draw over them their outer garments (or cloaks) so that they be recognised and not molested." Rasulullah sallallahu alaihe wasallam says in a sahih Hadith, "Shame is a branch of Imaan." Rasulullah sallallahu alaihe wasallam said that, 'A lady who dresses and perfumes herself with the intention of creating interest in men is according to the Shariah an adulteress and she will be punished on the day of judgement for committing adultery or zina.' All the prophets’ woman folk used to put on the outer cloaks, which are called Burqah or jilbab. The Quranic verses and the prophet’s Ahaadith apply to all Muslims regardless of the generation they are born in not only for the times of the prophet sallallahu alaihe wasallam. The outer cloaks is of dull colour and extremely loose so that the Muslim lady is fully covered from head to toe and does not draw any attention femininity when she is outdoors. However, she can dress as she pleases for her husband indoors.

The kuffaar say that Islam has enslaved its women by enforcing them to stay in their homes and cover themselves when they come out. How very wrong they are! What have the kuffaar given their women; prizes for displaying their bodies and exposing them to the risk of rape and molestation. Insecurity of losing their husbands to beautiful mistresses. Constant battle with nature to look young and pretty enough to keep your man with you! On the contrary, Islam elevates its women to the peak of respect and saves a woman from disgrace and humiliation, giving her a chance to be treated like an honourable human being and not a mere sex object for the lustful desires of bestial miscreants.

No doubt, we can adopt from the kuffar beneficial technology but should not be led into believing that their culture is better than ours is because it is definitely not! So when the kuffaar and the unfortunately misled Muslims laugh at the covered Muslims ladies, calling them backward and fanatical, we can educate them on the advantage of covering ourselves. Not only will he gain true satisfaction and peace of heart by following the truth, but we will also gain the pleasure of our Rabb who in turn he will reward us very handsomely for not forgetting the teachings of Islam, even after fifteen centuries after Rasulullah sallallahu alaihe wasallam death.

All the innocent Muslims who have strayed from the commands of Islam should know that the kuffar also lose their respect for us when they see us abandoning our culture and fumbling like sheep trying hard to make ourselves at home in their alien and immoral society. Allah says in surah Asr…. "By the time man is in loss, except those who believe". Just when will he start believing and prevent himself from incurring more loss and ruin? Rasulullah sallallahu alaihe wasallam has said, "He who imitates a nation will be raised with the kufar and be thrown into the depths of hell with them?

I hope that with this article Muslim women will he able to decide for themselves what sort of life they want in this world, and how they want to be treated on the day of judgement.

Janelle had the closest thing to free time in a while and so we decided to try some more modeling. This picture starts off the set, and it's also the picture that I feel is the strongest. We're both very pleased with how it came out.

I ordinarily shy away from post-processing my pictures, preferring to capture the scene as naturally as possible or having the camera make its slight alterations to things such as the color saturation and image sharpness. However my pictures often lack an appeal that many of the photos of photographers that I look up to have, a feature that I feel makes the pictures feel somewhat fantasy-like without appearing overly fake. There are likely many differences, but post-processing is very likely one of them.

The post-processing varied from setting to setting within this set, but generally involved increasing the contrast and saturation, adjusting the black point, and lowering the saturation of individual color channels (particularly the blue, as Janelle's hair took on a bluish tint when the overall color saturation was increased).

Center-weighted metering mode was used. Exposure on-camera was generally set to -0.7 ev because otherwise Janelle's dark clothing seemingly caused the camera to increase the exposure time.

Janelle did the makeup work herself, based on my suggestions. We used a dark plum-colored lipstick and Janelle lightly applied eyeliner. Some other makeup was also used...

This was taken with an Olympus E-520 and Leica D Summilux 25mm f/1.4 ASPH lens, wide-open at f/1.4 (I could have afforded to stop down a bit here - I like the bokeh, but if the scene were a bit more defined it may have been slightly nicer). This was taken hand-held with image stabilization off (as I'd heard that keeping it off could help avert front-focusing issues with this lens - unfortunately that wasn't the case). Image was post-processed in Apple Aperture 2.0 from the RAW file.

This was taken in Central Park, New York City. All-natural light, mid-afternoon.